I've been thinking about a really cool project I'd like to do someday if it didn't cost too much for the coolness factor. Er...that should be geek factor!
What I'm thinking is, setting up a project where you had one of each CPU crunching a BOINC project, going back as far as you could. If we took a project like SETI for example, where the WU due date times are way long, what do you think is the *oldest* CPU architecture that could actually crunch it and turn in a valid result?
Could a 486 DX (with the math co-processor) do it? A 386 DX? etc...
wouldn't that be the ultimate in geekdom to have a lineup of them from oldest to newest in architecture churning out results?
*for bonus points you could install a popular game of that era - whatever was the rage to play when that CPU was in vogue, and people could play them
haha!